Potential Malicious Software

[[violet]]

I got dinged thanks to Avast doing it's job, ya'll got something going on here that may need a looking at.

[Frisbeeteria]

https://forum.nationstates.net/favicon.ico is the Jennifer Govt eye, in miniature. I can't imagine a reason why Avast triggered on that. We've used it for years.

[Reploid Productions]

Weirdly, I've had the same popup warning today, but on different images. Nothing is turning up on my scan though. Will screenshot if I get another warning.

[Drasnia]

I've gotten a couple Avast! warnings today both on here and on Twitch, so perhaps a new update for it is detecting a bunch of false positives maybe?

[USS Monitor]

I got an Avast pop-up on some other image, but figured a .png file that I haven't downloaded was not exactly life-threatening.

[Enfaru]

I'd inform avast, this is quite likely to be a False Positive due to a new direction they're taking to spot malicious files.

[Indo-Malaysia]

https://forum.nationstates.net/favicon.ico is the Jennifer Govt eye, in miniature. (Image) I can't imagine a reason why Avast triggered on that. We've used it for years.

Eh, guys at Avast probably just read the book. Id say a violent government enforcer is a threat worth blocking

[[violet]]

I checked out the server and everything looks as it should. The favicon.ico file is 5 years old and hasn't changed.

I did find a lot of people on Google complaining about Avast reports on favicon.ico files, but I don't know why it's doing that.

[[violet]]

I reported it to Avast and they said they fixed it:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Avast.

Our virus specialists have been working on this problem and it has now been fixed. It may be necessary to restart your web browser in order to apply this fix.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Should you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us again.

Best Regards,
Prokop

The Avast Support Team